My
Web sitezenhell.com
has been around in various forms
since 1994 (which is why I still write "Web site" rather
than "website"). It is always a manifestation of my life
and what I think are the most important ideas I can
communicate at the time. It doesn't get much attention,
and I don't change it often, but it's not a ghost ship
either, even though the style of its Web pages seems
stuck in 1994 . . .

Here's the key idea that I want to communicate today: Most
Americans are missing the movie that they're
actually in. I guess it's just not
mainstream enough for them, too intellectual, too deep,
the plot a bit complex and difficult to follow. It took
13.7 billion years to get to this amazing climactic
point in the movie--we can call it Humans on Earth--yet,
incredibly, most American people are instead watching
reruns of old, simpler movies even though they have
leading roles in this ultra-high-budget spectacular
that's currently playing!

And the plot couldn't be more exciting! In the old
silent movies, audiences thrilled at watching the
villain tie the girl to the railroad tracks and listened
anxiously for the sound of the hoofbeats of the Mountie
coming to save her. Now we're the girl tied to
the railroad tracks, but we don't even seem to notice.
We can spend hours talking about sports or waiting in
line at Disneyland without any sense of urgency or
amazement. It's as if we have gotten up to buy popcorn
during the most important and interesting part of the
movie!

For
example, most people think of Fukushima as Japan's
problem, and since they rarely hear about it anymore, it
is out of sight and out of mind. Yet pay a tiny bit of
attention to this subject--spend a half hour on line
reading about it--and you realize that this is so
obviously the greatest nuclear disaster to ever happen,
and that it is the problem of the whole world, and
therefore your problem.

Imagine a healthy, successful, well dressed man, content
and self-satisfied, but his right foot is rotting with
gangrene and his toes are falling off inside his
expensive shoe. Blood and puss are starting to ooze out
of the shoe and the room is beginning to smell. Blood
poisoning is causing a red streak to go up his leg. You
are that man. Fukushima is part of your body. It is
everybody's problem. It is huge, not something to be
ignored! It's the "right foot" of the whole world! But
even in Japan, the "right leg," if you will, it's being
ignored, and people there are threatened
with prison time if they reveal certain
information about it, all so that a handful of
fabulously rich people can become richer.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. I
have felt sorry for poor Japan and their infected foot.
But after a bit of research, I learned how
incredibly dangerous our own aging Diablo Canyon
nuclear power plant is, about halfway between San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Plagued by failures and
failed inspections, its cooling pipes go right up to the
ocean at sea level and would turn into twisted wreckage
during an earthquake or tsunami. The Diablo Canyon plant
is nearer to a major active earthquake fault than
Fukushima is! Most of California could be destroyed by a
nuclear disaster there, and prevailing winds would carry
radioactivity across the whole nation. Our billionaire
masters have incredible guts to gamble so with our
safety just so PG&E can keep its desired profit
margin. From an objective view, they are psychopaths.

The thought
experiment I want you to perform is this: About any
societal or political issue, ask yourself what would an
extraterrestrial sociologist report back to its home
planet about it?

What would this alien sociologist report about Diablo
Canyon? Keep in mind that we live on a planet that is
constantly deluged with free renewable energy
from the sun, wind, tides, rivers, and geothermal sites!
What kind of energy systems and healthcare programs
could we have developed with the $3 trillion Bush1, son
of oil millionaire Bush2, ponied up to invade, occupy,
destroy, and permanently control oil-rich Iraq?

Have you ever even heard of World Trade Center
Building 7? Most Amerikans haven't! On 9/11, this
47-story building across the street from the Twin Towers
fell down perfectly straight into its own footprint at
free-fall speed, despite having 80 structural columns
and localized fires on only three floors, the only
skyscraper in history to ever fall from heat.

Do you believe in the Holocaust, the Vietnam Holocaust?
Look! Does
Amerika show remorse or contrition? No! Instead, Amerika
creates a new Vietnam War and new millions of dead
people in the Middle East!

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world is my
own government."
--Martin Luther King

The American healthcare system is barbaric. I will write
some blog posts about it this year.

And of course one of my biggest causes is to free people
from primitive Iron Age religions. One of my very best
essays is entitled, "Earth
is Spherical and Religion is Over".Some of my very
best essays are archived here on my
old blog! And
here (changed January 2019) is my new blog.
The interface at Blogspot became impossible so I had
to move it. Please
click on the comments link at the bottom of each
blog post you read and let me know what you think.
You don't need to sign in to comment, and anonymous
comments are welcome! Jeff Syrop